Intellectual Property Senior Counsel

L3

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Job Title: Intellectual Property Senior Counsel

Job : 32696

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

The Intellectual Property Counsel (IP Counsel) at L3

Harris is a legal specialist and a valued member of the L3

Harris Office of the General Counsel. The IP Counsel is often relied upon for business as well as intellectual property decisions and is expected to know (or learn) a great deal about the L3

Harris business. This legal professional will act responsively, set priorities, exhibit strong leadership skills, exercise independent judgment, work well within a team, and utilize the highest professional standards. This specialist counsel will report to the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and is located at L3

Harris Corporate headquarters in Melbourne, Florida.

The IP Counsel’s duties and responsibilities typically include the following:

• Provide legal advice and guidance on government IP rights, data rights, FAR and DFAR, and doing business with the U.S. Government.
• Manage (within established budgets) the patent acquisition process, including selecting and managing outside counsel, disclosing inventions, conducting patentability investigations, managing the filing, prosecuting, issuing and maintenance of patent applications and patents, domestically and internationally in coordination with Corporate international resources.
• Assist the transfer of technology from L3
  
  Harris to other parties including providing leadership to the business team in drafting and negotiating technology licenses, and M&A and other transactional support.
• Manage the trademark process at L3
  
  Harris, including the acquisition of trademarks, advising and training on mark selection and use, conducting right to use investigations, and filing, prosecuting, issuing and monitoring trademark applications and registrations.
• Enforce L3
  
  Harris’ intellectual property rights through investigation of competitors’ products, through negotiation of favorable intellectual property licenses or through litigation.
• Provide guidance in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other business ventures as it pertains to intellectual property.
• Manage third party claims alleging infringement by L3
  
  Harris’ products or services, including conducting and/or managing infringement and validity investigations, negotiating favorable intellectual property licenses, if warranted and necessary, and defending L3
  
  Harris in intellectual property litigation.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of L3
  
  Harris’ technology.
• Be responsive to customers and meet promised deadlines for rendering advice or preparing documents and be available when called on by management and staff.
• Proactively anticipate legal issues before they become problems by practicing preventive law and by early involvement. Provide guidance and advice as it relates to respecting the IP rights of third parties.
• Provide training and written guidelines on the acquisition and preservation of intellectual property rights.
• Act as an enterprise focal for Open-source licensing reviews and approvals.
• Support CISO in the enterprise cybersecurity and AI efforts, including attending daily SOC meetings, reviewing and updating policies and procedures to ensure compliance with AI and Cybersecurity regulations, and managing cyber incident responses and outside counsel and vendors.
• Abili…